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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-01-04, Page 4PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD fiHURS.. JAN. 4. 1940 YOUR WORLD AND MINE (Gi,�ght) by JOHN C. KIRKWOO'D } } } Many, many persons are wondering the Creator of this world interfere, about what the state of the world in the working of His long-term, plan is going to be after the current war for Man in a particular month of year comes to an end, Many profess to or century? How does our generation believe that the war will have de-' differ, in God's sight, from precious atroyed civilization. I generations and from generations to Let me say emphatically that civil -I come? ization is N:OT going to be destroyed.! Believing as I do, I am not expect - Property will be—is—being destroyed. ing God to answer prayers, ma matter Fortunes are being destroyed But how fervent they may be, whose NOT civilization. In some countries' petition is that He should immediately the pace of civilization's progress may, do what the prayer beseeches Him to be , slowed up, yet civilization will re- do. Yet I believe that 'God answers maixu. I£ is blue and discreditable prayer, but only conditiorially, and one pessimism which declares that civil-' of the conditions is that the prayer ization will be destroyed. is Godlike in the quality of his life Wars take millions of men andor purpose. God answers back to the women out of production, and obvious- I Christ -spirit, to those in harmony ly this. must slow up the progress with Himself. of nations, and war does •reduce .the l I believe in the institution known - wealth -making. labour and activities as the Christian Church, for the of the world. Also, wars destroy Christian Church is—or should be- stored -up wealth to , a fabulous ex -I the interpreter 'of God,to Man. Yet, tent, and so •represent,incalcuable.alas, ovganized Christianity —as or- waste—wasted material, wasted tune,l.ganized in denominations or sects and Thus, by way of illustration, haiiine he individual units or congregatioes— to rebuild roods and bridges and has not always had as its first and houses and factories, and cities .end.'supresne purpose the interpretation of churches and schools', and ships, de- God's will concerning Man. Quite too stroyed by war, represents wasted commonly churches, today are not material and time and labour and, greatly different froma social club, money. Yet civilization, meaning, ac- I with the church edifice as the club - cording to the dictionary, "the -state house. o f being refined in rnaniiers from I We talk a lot about the rudeness of savage life, mid im- wars to end proved hi arts and learning", will re- wars, but that is just folly. Just so main, at feast in those countries .un- long as men individually and in their touched by the ravages of war and grouping neglect orreject the God living, just so long will th plan far forward in civilized development of ere —aur own country, Canada, for ex- be strife—war—ine this world. We ample, and the United States; and can talk all we like about democracies let us hope, Britain, also. Neither and totalitarian states, and about a person nor a country beconnes less isms; but not until there is a universal civilized because of loss of fortune or purpose in all lands to pattern life prosperity. 'Loss of fortune or of onbe the God -plan can and will there prosperity may lessen one's ability to be that state of affairs called the :express refinement hi manners and Millennium. may halt one's progress in expressions In the meantime there is obligation : r0`», • "RAIDERS' NIGHTMARE" British firms will enable the Food Front to be supplied quickly with the sinews of its own important section of war." of art and learning, but it need not °n' the part of every mdrvrcuai sa filar steel ropes for the military jug - make his own life harmonize with the. • make one barbaric. • I gernauts which rapidly excavate "bet - God -plan and the Christ example. ter 'ores" for advance position in No eager. ' —•—! When all is said and done nations are , In this connection I propose sayingwhat the individuals are who compose Man s Land. Something which may not be very, them, Newsy Notes from England BY AN OVERSEAS -CORRESPONDENT • Britain's Many War Uses for Steel Rope When the King visited ballon bar- rage units recently, he was told of BRITAIN'S WAR SPIDERS Britain's secret weapon of defence. Spin Their- Way Into Industry's "A new method of making the bat- Great Effort loom defence evenmore effective," is the cryptic official deserip,tion of a Even British spiders are mobilised means which brings certain destruc'- as industrial war workers. tion to, enemy aircraft. coming in the Instrument factories keep groups slightest contact with this "r'aiders' of these eight -legged `craftsmen" be - nightmare". cause the webs they spin can be used I have visited a feetomy where as graticules, the technical name for British hands and machines are turn- the very fine division markings on the ing out steel rope for all three fight- glass of binoculars, submarine peri- ing Sefvices. Some of it is destined scopes and other delicate optical in- to go into theskies, as the mooring struments. The silken strands areon rope for the ballodefence. now be- supplementary to mechanical mnelhods ing made in hundreds of thtiusands now developed. of yards; some of it will go down , The spiders' part in the war was into the seas in the form of submarine mentioned • by Engineer Vice -Admiral nets, mine mooring rope, and its arch- Sir Harold, Brown, Director of Am enemy the minesweeping rope, whose munition Production; in an account job is to cut through the anirie moor- of British industry's intense adapta- ings. Thus I saw how the fortunes bility to meet war needs. of war may "hang on a wire"; how "The problem today is to beat our steel ropes and cables need be no ploughshares into swords but also to less essential to a war effort simply provide additional ploughshares, so because they lack the spectacular ay -`that industry can supply civilian needs peal of tanks and guns. land carry on export trade," said Sir I saw, to the uncanny adaptability Harold, and gave the following in !stances of how industry was tackling of British industry to meet the needs this dual problem: of r while maintaining those of, Gramophone manufacturers are homnand .export commerce. Plants risking fuses and fuse boxes; which make such domestic things as Sugar manufaeuring machinery clothes lines for backgarden washing is turning out simnrnrr plate; are turning out aircraft cords, those The electrical industry is able vital links between the pilot's controls to makeBuns and shells; andthe 'plane's responso to them; Knitting machine makers can curtain rod wire machinery is adapted to make lines for field telephones; prrorvid'e complex war instruments; and the cables which take the strain Agricultural .engineering pro- in commercial excavators are born on duces gun mountings and tanks; nor - machines which can also supply rim- The production of articles for port mal civilian use in Home and export new, yet is likely to be resisted by , — inany of my readers. What I am about to say relates to the divine No Radio Oppression sovlereignty of this 'world. . • I am going to assume that most of In Canada us believe that there is a Supremo "As free as the air" are all the Being, bhe creator of the universe. wave lengths for radia reception the l which spin their silk in the stately None of us knows how old the uni- world over to Canadians. And it has roams of a 15th century Kentish verse is, yet we do know that tinsbeen proven that reception is just asicastle is being investigated by of - planet on which we live is over 300,- clear and as powerful with battery-ficiSupplyinisti and ,Air 000 000 ai• old Nor da we know Ials of the M SILKWORMS ARE SPINNING PARACHUTES Three and a Half Million of Them Found a New British Industry The output of 3',500,000 silkworms MEDICAL CARE IN THE units, Orae znay State with truth that) ever, let's look on the lighter sialn of` our problem as to medical military things. •, ' MILITIA service is quite different from that The Legion had no trouble in find- -• The development of the medical of a country with a large permanent bag men to direct its entertainment care of the Military forces of Great army. program, for in Captain Ben Alien, Britain is of timely general interest "The medical and'surgical problems of Ottawa, C'apbain 14Ie> t Plunkett, of because today the Army Medical Ser that besot an army,are those o£ public Toronto, and Alan Murray, o£ 114ant. vice Carps occupies so much more an health and surgery. A well trained real, still youthful veterans of 1914 • - imPartant place pkat it did years ago,. Physician in civil life is most valuable 19181 they, found three experienced. In 1680 there were only four regi rn military life, while a qualified, ac- entrepreneurs who have spent a rents in the British arm To these, tine, experienced, civil surgeon is one' goodly portion of their time in front y I who is best qualified to apply to mil - of the footlights. Ben , surgeons were attached. Their namesg , Ment and. Alan,. appeared in the 'army list andtheir itary needs the surgical practices of who will be. rem�einbered as members pay was 4s a day with a horse to the past and. the innovations of the'of the famous "DumbelIe" — Mert, carry their chests. It became pm - Present. • The officers of the pen-nandpen-nandorganized and directed the. troupe sible, some time later, for the medical ent medical force are trained . and are among the few. Canadians , who officer to hold' e combatant commis -.skilled in enilitary establishments and' have played on Broadway. •, sion also, purchasing one as an ensign ren the routine conduct of 'an siren, So Ben, in, addition to being ap- which permitted him• to receive half medical organization, pointed, assistant to Lieut. -Col. Ralph a crown a day for extra. hospital semi' "The members of the non-perrnan- }L Webb, gerieral manager of the. vice. He had no combatant duty and cent Royal .,'Canadian Army Medical organization, was also named, director -• ranked as a staff; officer. In 1685; Corps, however, have, quite a differ- of entertainment, Pled came into the there apparently wa an Arm Med- ent background. Some of these are picture when .he . was. chaser super - there s y highly trained, and skillful praetition- visor of soldier' concert parties, Med- ical Service, as there is mention ofand a Surgeon General, TOtere, was also era. It would seem that this type Alan was taken on the Legion a Company of Surgeons of Loindon)have'their futures as.practitioners to strengtin to develop concert parties - who examined the surgeons for the, which to look forward, and unless among the Black Watch and other Army and Navy. The services mead -they wish to go into administrative , regimtents • in the Montreal area. ered at this time were chiefly regi-1pasntrons they should be employed m Development of parties within the mental, but there were general hos-,a wholly medical capacity. Rank inI this instance at onee becomes, or may' units has,: been one of the first things undertaken by, the Legion. Auditions are being held wherever the fighting - forces are concentrated and the talent. chosen is being moulded . into self- contained companies, Flood lights, backdrops and the rest of the neces- saay stage paraphernalia are being • acquired and the men provided with, suitable costumes for their Thespian efforts. This may seem Hardly neces- sary in Canada, in view of the large number of splendid concerts being - If the British fulfill their promise presented by civilian talent, but the by Dr. D. E. Robertson, President of t0 bang their washing on the Seig- explanation is that in France and up the. Academy of Medicine, Toronto, fried Line, it's an even bet that among near the front where the big guns who added, "It may seem strange the "woollies" to dangle in the Nazi are booming there'll be precious few- to ewto us but it is recorded that physiciansr breeze will be many bearing the trade diversions for the men during their were highly educated, often Univer- I mark, "Made in Canada." This whim- leisure hours. Inasmuch as they will sity graduates, and were paid maw 'aim! determination is shared by every have to entertain themselves to a much in advance of regimental surg- I member of the C.A.S.F. and it is all large extent, the concert parties now eons. During a war a surgeon might because they are developing a 'sense being developed in Canada will be even be raised to the rank of a phys- i of humor that bids fair to outdo even doubly appreciated overseas. ician. The surgeons, however, had that of their British comrades. I This branch of the Legion's war some famous men. John Hunter was l Anyway, when young Canadians go work, while of great importance to once_ Surgeon General and served in into the mud of European .battlefields the armed forces hi training in Can - Portugal in 1760-1763. During all I or fly through Continental skies they' oda will get into its real stride in this time the medical officer was dis- will take with them light hearts and England and France. Over there, satisfied with his position in the army.' gay ones. Arid the grim task that 'when our lads are thousands of miles He did not have the standing of an 4s theirs will be made easier because from home, and within marching dis- ordinary combatant officer." they will know how to smile. Rance of the Big Show, they will not "In 1900, or thereabouts, the Queens So strike up the band, Professor 'only need, but want, all the diversions approved the Royal Army Medical Goering, because boisterous fun, that can be provided. And so, de- Corps, and the titles of its officers innuendo and plenty of double entente pendent upon requirements, The Can - as know now. "Through all these are being included in bhe regimental adian Legion War Services will amp - years" said Dr. Robertson, "there had orders of the Canadian armed forces! lify the entertainment it is now pro - been a steady fight for the recognition! The hapyiest soldiers make the best .riding in Canada. of the army doctor as a man• who soldiers, say veterans of the last war deserved to rank as an officer. There rand they ought to know. Therefore, NOBLE BEAST had been apparently a dearth of men by means of their wartime organize - skilled in their profession in the army, ition, The Canadian Legion War Ser -I Walking round the barracks, the A It must he understood that most ofivices, they are already paying par- colonel noticed a long queue of men the above discussion is in relation to titular attention to this phase of waiting outside the stable, Each held regular army service and is therefore I army life. la lump of sugar. a situation that does not apply tot This does not mean, of course, that "Pim glad to see you levie animals Canada, In Canada we have severalitheLegion intends to confine its ac -I so much," he remarked to' one recruit. companies of regular troops and a tivities to the field of entertaiurnent, l "I suppose the Horse you're 'giving skeleton permanent medical corps, the There are the more serious mattersthesugar to is the pet of the regi - medical hospital work of these troops of providing facilities for education, ment?" being done by the Department of conducting' recreation huts, personanl "Not 'art he ain't, sir,' replied the Pensions and National Health. We services and travel bureaux both here'reeruit. "He's the one what kicked• havie also volunteer militia medical land overseas. At the moment, how- the sergeant" markets is proceeding in many fact- ories side by side with their special war effort. Care has been taken to spread the work as far as possible among small and large firms in all parts, so that when peace comes again industry can revert to normal com- mercial practice without difficulty or hardship. CANADA'S FIRST WAR LOAN pitals in the rear. In fact, in 1748 Middleton, surgeon to the forces, in- troduced hospitals with separate beds, clean linen and trained nurses. Medical inspection of recruits came in 1745. In 1757 medical officers wore the uniform of the corps to which they belonged. In 1760 a surgeon's pay was 73 pounds, while a captain's was 182 pounds. Surgeons bought their commissions and paid as much as 500 pounds. This information was recently given become, an obstruction to the proper organization of an effective unit. LEGION HELPING FORCES DEVELOP ' SENSE OF HUMOR By F. IL Weeding Ottawa's announcement that prep - how long Man has occupied the earth; operated sets as with electric receiv- Ministry who are responsible 'for the arations are under way for Canada's err. The only limitations are those provision of parachute cloth. first war loan, now scheduled to make yet we do know that there wore civil - Peculiar to each radio receiving •set, its appearance during the first uar- i civilizations — The only place in Britain where silk PP g 4 izations — advanced c yr far beyond the period of recorded The radio audiences of Germany is produced, Lulli'ngstone Castle, is,ter of 1940, is good news inasmuch history, which would seem to suggest are not so fortunate. According to a the ancestral tonic of the Hart Dyke as it will provide the rank and file recent statement by Dr. Augustin family, but Sir Oliver, the 8th bar -of Canadians with an opportunity to that civilization can be destroyed or mendo Fiigon of the CBC they are subject- onet, and his lady live in a small'make their first direct contribution to extinguished—drat races of ed to what he terms "radio oppres- cottage on the estate and the silk- ;Canada's war effort. The backbone slip back towards barbarism—even as cion". The German authorities jamewerms "go i'nt° residence" inn the of Canada's participation in this war Castle itself for 30 days in each will be financial because of the vast season while they spin their sills !amount of foodstuffs, materials and King James I and King George I' military supplies that will be required both unsuccessfully tried to create a tram flys country. True, much of home -produced silk industry, but sue- these materials will be paid for by cess has attended Lady Hart Dyke's the Allies, but some of the British efforts, which started in 1932 and sup -1 Purchases in this country will have plied the caw silk for the Queen's,' to be financed by Canada, and Can - Coronation dress and the Coronation ada's own program will be extensile. robes of the Princesses and the Royal It seems probable that at least 40 per cent of the national income will be required in the next year to meet the cost of war and the other ex- penditures of all governments, in Can- ada and to finance British purchases here. Canada leas come a long way since the last war in developing a fiscal system of equality in citizenship and its attendant responsibilities. As an- nounced in thefirst war budget, this war, in as far as Canada is concerned, will be finaheed as far as practicable Russia, and in lesser degree, Germany, radio broadcasts by foreign countries seem in these present tines to. be which that' do not want their people going backward, in the direction of 1 to hear, and where the jamming is barbarism, of savagery. I not effective they interfere with the Also, I am going to assume that listeners by transmitting the sound most of us believe that Jesus C'luist of bells an the same wave leng't'h. If was God in the flesh, and that he a German attempts to tune in on this was born as all of us are born—of'paticular wave length the sound of earthly parents, and that he was .born i bells often gives Kinn away, so that to reveal to Man God's plan of life for men. And when we think of the a neighbour may report him to the police. 300,000,000 or more years of this Dr. Fiigon also states that prison planet's existence', then Christ's — terms of from two to six years have God's — residence on this planet has been meted out in Germany for list- ening to foreign programs. Most public men, and informed international sources are agreed that we are in for a long war. As it of the Old and the New Testaments, proceeds the news of the world will full instruction concerning the kind of continue to hold the centre of the life He want Man to live. We are I stage. The unprecedented demand as not left in the dark concerning the reported by radio dealers, demon - God -way of life. -1f and when we strates the value which every family refuse to live according to the divine places on its radio today. pattern, we but punish ourselves, and by "we" I moan ourselves regarded as individuals and ourselves in our social and racial masses. So believing I can understand why in these present times we have wars and. crime, and corruption, and family disruption. The Scriptures give us a recipe for life --how to live. We know how to live perfectly; yet if we refuse or neglect to follow the recipe given us most of us can doubtless stand a little for living perfectly, and substitute for impr•oying more or less. the Scripture's recipe recipes of our So when old Father Time hands own, then we must expect to live inn over his hour glass to that little pink perfectly. and white cherub, 1940, come January Quite obviously, therefore, if the 1st, how many of us will honestly World is ever to approach the perfect feel secure in the belief that we did way of living there must be a uni- our best to be a good neighbor in to be regarded as being a very mod- ern episode. As I see it, God, the creator of Man, has given us, in the scriptures Your Annual Inventory Now that the New Year is close upon up, there cones the annual time of year when. most of us take invent- ory of our blessings and our shoit- conings, vowing sincerely to do. some- thing about the latter. All of which is quite proper, as versal effort to live occording to the, 1939? God -pattern, So there is an urgent' Were we kind to' our fellows? Did need in these times, and in all times,' we mind our own business, Were we for the education of all peoples every- I tolerant of our associates or did we where in what the God -pattern is. In base our actions 'on prejudice and other words, the whole world must be' dogmatism? And going down the Christianized. scale of human; frailties one might ask if we consistently leave the cap off -- " ` the tooth paste oiif we were mean Many good people of om• times want. to the house cat. There are many God to interfere, immediately and ea- ways most of us can improve our fectively, in the affairs of the world. everyday lives and our . associations They want God to perform miracles with the other fellow. daily -to rescue Man from his delib- Probably the best advice anyone 1 erate and his careless disregard for can give would Mebane tolerance of Duchesses. "The farm now has 250,000 mul- berry trees and bushes to provide food for my `family', and covers some 35 acres," Lady Harty Dyke said. "Aminal production has now reach- ed about 1,500 pounds of silk, enough for about 200 parachutes. The Min- istry of Supply requires very exact- ing tests for example, the silk must have a tensilestien strength of 40 pounds to the square inch but I haaue now heard that our British silk meets every technical requirement, and I am on a "pay as you go" basis, and paid naturally proud that the Lullingstone for by all on the general basis of silkworms may help in Britain's war ability to pay. It would .be impos-. effort." sibie to tax for the entire cost of swinging the program into action without tending to hamper initiative, lessen efficiency and retard the ex pansion of production and national in- come. Tax revenues', therefore, must be supplemented through borrowing Even. British troops stationed on the by means `of domestic bond flotations, Home Front may, if they wish, 'level It may, too, be taken for granted allotments when they can raise "bat- that there will be no "tax free" bonds teries" of vegetables near their bil-' in this war, that will gravitate to a lets or gun emplacements. I1 few holders and enable them to Plans are almost complete for this minimize their income taxes. Nor will latest "dig for victory" movement, there be any duplication of the abnor- which will mean a return to their mal petite from war materials wit - hobby for the many men who were nessed during the last War. The safe - keen gardeners in civil life and will guard against this is the Excess Prof - be specially popular in remote anti - its Tax, enacted at the special war aircraft batteries where there is little session of the Canadian Parliament. to do in space time. I It is indicated that the forthcoming Commanding officers will probably war loan will have bonds as low as be enabled to indent for supplies of $50 in denomination, and it is the tools, and the vegetables produced hope of the Minister of Finance, Hon. may be purchased as fresh supplies J.' L. Ralston, K.G., that every Can - for troops at home. ! adian will become a creditor to the Meanwhile evilians are answering' Canadian Government through his or ibe call to grow more food. "At the`her ownership of a Government bond. outbreak of war there was roughly ; A creditor relationship of every cit - 800,000 allotment gardens of various izem, with his government is an as- sizes in, England and Wales," said ,surance of good government and .of cr tai of ,8 E. se e W. Giles,M o .Wad Mr. GY , b,citizenship. the National Allotments Society. Conditions in Canada offer "Their total production value was propitious circumstances for the loan probably 117,000,000 worth of fruit anel when it comes. War orders and the' vegetables -a year. flange Western wheat crop are begin- "Industry supplies allotment hold- , Ding to have their: effect in expanding ers with tools, timber, glass, seeds business activity. Employment is in - and fertilizers to the extent of atcreasing, anal the physical ,volume of least £1,000,00.0 annually. The Gov -, business, as measured by the Dominn- eminent now :expect -500,000 more al- ion, Bureau of Statisticsindices, is lotment holders which will mean.approachingan all-time peak, With £650,000 worth of additional industrial the increased activity generally in the business. (business world and promise of its "In spite of war conditions, there continuance, the first war loan can be is no doubt that the adaptability ofexpeoted-to meet a ready eee3ition. the recipe for the perfect life, They profess to wonder over God's seeming indifference to the eine of mien, to the sufferings of men. They want God to strafe the Russians and the Germans and the Japanese. They for- get that God has been watching Man and his ways for, say, a million years, and that Ile may go on watching Man and his ways for further millions of years, They want God to be obedient to their views and will concerning what should be done in 1940 -in. the 'space of a single year, Why should our fellow man's shortcomings and an honest attempt to improve our own. -Port Elgin Times. $24,80.,000 IN GOLD SALVAGED The greatest salvage job in history, to which the British navy devoted eight years, malting more than 5,000 dives, was the recovery of $24,800,000 worth of gold from the wreck of the White Star liner "Laurentic," which struck a mine and sank in 120 feet of water off the north Irish coast in 1917 "BATTERIES" OF VEGETABLES Tommies and Civilians are Digging for Victory Neat - Attractive JOB PRINTING Anything from a Visiting Card to the Big Sale Poster. FOR MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, PROFESSIONAL MEN, FARMERS, ;CHURCH OFFICERS, AND ALL USERS OF PRINTING. 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